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Just now, wildstrawberry said:

they try to get skaters from as many different parts of the world as possible. the italian pair and keegan finished lower than she did and they were still invited. also didn't she get a medal/good placement at europeans this year?

yeah she did well at euros and got some generous scores here, judges clearly setting her up as the top non-Russian european women's skater

Just now, LadyLou said:

(My only complain is that cameraman sadly failed to proper capture the throwing snow part in HYK)

 

I know when S/H are supposed to skate but I'm counting on you satellites to sync myself properly

I hope there are multiple angles, I thought the angle wasn't great on the single axel either. Someone release an alternative please!

this tonal whiplash lol

big cheer ❤️

I love what the sleeves do on the spins

sakura fairy!

the detailing on Shiyue's outfit is so pretty

Lol Keegan takes representing Canada seriously. The costume hahaha

backflip!

2 minutes ago, caterpillar said:

The people doing lights for this gala are insane.

 

I'm guessing you would need a special rigging for this, but I wish we could have it for more galas..

I heard Zhang Yimou was involved in designing the gala too, so I think this might be very out of range of the typical budget 😅

The baby pairs were good! Nice to see there will be someone to pass the torch to.

I was curious to see where the points to go over T/M came from since at end of the day 3S<< is still a pretty significant error points-wise and T/M actually got higher PCS. The quad twist is an obvious one, but it's not enough to make up for the error because the difference between how much S/H got and how much T/M got on their triple twist is only 1.42. Almost as big of a contributor is the forward outside death spiral, which earned them 1.33 more points than T/M got on their forward inside death spiral (0.9 from BV, rest from GOE). Then there's a bunch of small GOE differences that add up. So they basically won because of two harder elements + execution difference.

2 minutes ago, caterpillar said:

 

Wait, so Sui/Han won pcs overall but T/M beat them in specifically performance and interpretation??? 

no actually T/M won PCS overall

protocols:

https://results.isu.org/results/season2122/owg2022/FSKXPAIRS-------------FNL-000100--_JudgesDetailsperSkater.pdf

1 minute ago, caterpillar said:

God, I just realized this was the last competition of the olympics. I feel like I've aged ten years these last two weeks. 

yeah I forgot normal life existed lol

2 minutes ago, Louitunes said:

How ungracious of T/M.  Appreciate your silver please!!!!

what did they do?

also, while I don't have anything against T/M themselves, it's nice that Eteri got denied another gold medal...

and now we know who will be closing out the gala! if it couldn't be Yuzu, Sui/Han would be my next choice

Just now, rockstaryuzu said:

Man the camera loves Liu, they pan to him all the time. 

 

Congrats Sui/Han!!!

 

 

 

I mean, he's very good looking

anyway finally some justice

now I regret being a scaredy cat and skipping. YAYAYAYAY

So they won?

Just now, liv said:

They'll win. We're in China. 

 

Nice to see 4twist. Only a few teams have done those. First was in the early 80s, but not well rewarded so few did them. 

but they're up against Russians

me being too scared to watch. recap?

Xinyu is delivering top tier content. We are very grateful 

9 minutes ago, pinkosek said:

I agree, I think this may be it. Looking at the medal count for China in summer Olys (they were second to US) and now in Beijing they are not doing bad as well, it shows they are very good in developing structure for the Oly athletes. I expect FS will be next on the line, as soon as they get the structure in place. It's just baffling, since they already have such great pairs for a long while and men are doing reasonably well too. Why not ladies? So strange. One would think putting in place similar system to Russia would not be an issue in China (without the unhealthy culture though, one can hope).

They probably make most of the promising young women do pairs. Honestly, given the state of the women's discipline, I feel like they should keep doing that. They'll have a longer and healthier career

I wouldn't say men are doing that well. There was Boyang, but afaik there's no one really coming up in juniors to replace him.

1 hour ago, ralucutzagy said:

Protocols.

 

 

lol they gave B/K positive GOE for a hand down. I mean, I suppose it wasn't that ugly of an error, but that's what -1 is for

17 minutes ago, Yuzurella said:

On the question why figure skating isn't more popular in China... well, if people see this kind of BS like in these Olympics, namely a doping scandal, abuse of minors, unfair and biased scoring and judging, preferential treatment for Russians and Americans, etc., then this will certainly not motivate people to watch more figure skating or let their children do it.

I think the main issue is that most of the country doesn't have access to an ice rink. Those only exist in big cities or up north.

Figure skating has gotten a lot more popular with Yuzu though. I wonder if it'll lead to a stronger crop of skaters in the singles disciplines a decade or so down the line

Just now, sallycinnamon said:

uh so P/J got underscored for that performance and B/K held up to finish 4th. 

judges decided that they threw the host nation enough of a bone by putting S/H first by 0.16 pts, so went back to their usual program of overscoring Russians

ngl I lost interest mid program for B/K, which wasn't the case for T/M